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Health Scare In a new investigation from The Associated Press, dozens of experts have found that Whisper, an AI-powered transcription tool made by OpenAI, is plagued with frequent hallucinations and…
Bad Surprises Synthesia, a text-to-video AI company with a valuation of over one billion dollars, claims that its tech allows users to “create studio-quality videos with AI avatars” as easily…
Body Snatchers The “Alien” horror franchise is back with another blockbuster. And really, would it be a post-“Aliens” sequel without a little controversy sowing division among fans and critics? Technically,…
Weirder and Weirder Elon Musk’s AI startup xAI has just launched Grok-2 and Grok-2 mini, two new versions of its foul-mouthed chatbot Grok. The updated models, which are only available…
The AI tool ignored basic instructions about sourcing and citations. But it’s a pretty good newsroom coding partner.I Used ChatGPT as a Reporting Assistant. It Didn’t Go Well
A conversation with web cartoonist Dorothy Gambrell on the curdled internet, labor, and how we became just numbersWhat Happens When Your Art Is Used to Train AI
From Beyond An Indonesian political party used generative AI to “resurrect” one of the most violent political figures in the nation’s history in a bizarre, deepfaked endorsement message, CNN reports…
In the midst of her bizarre beef with Megan “Megan Thee Stallion” Pete, award-winning rapper Onika “Nicki Minaj” Maraj-Petty has signed on with fellow artists to support artificial intelligence regulation…
Blame Photoshop A national news service in Australia has been criticized for using AI to sexualize an image of Victoria state parliament member Georgie Purcell. The photo, published by Nine…
False Positive A 61-year-old man says he was savagely beaten and gang raped in jail after facial recognition led to his false arrest for a robbery in Houston, Texas, The…